Given how much Bush is hated across the world, do you think there will be dancing in the streets all over the world if his fellow Republican is defeated?
{shake}{shake}{shake} All signs point to Yes
{little dance in my chair} Yep I think a lot of people will be celebrating in the streets. I know I will be
This is just a trap on the conservative meme that the left views Obama as the Messiah, right?
It might make some folks happy to have Bush replaced by a Democrat instead of a Republican, but worldwide massive public celebrations? For real? I want some of what you’ve been smoking.
Come on now. I’m an Obama supporter but this is kinda over-the-top. Will worldwide happiness increase when Obama wins? Will 10,000 angels get their wings when Obama wins? Will crotchety old man McGee down the street crack a smile for the first time in years when Obama wins?
It’ll mean much more commenting on it afterward. Speculating, or debating about such a thing before-hand just seems overly saccharine.
I have lots of friends in Berlin who will be drinking themselves silly in celebration.
I have two good friends in New Zealand who intend to party hearty when they hear the news.
I know of several people here on the SDMB in the UK who fully intend to party if Obama wins.
Just because it is a US election does not mean people in other countries are not going to whoop it up if Obama wins. You may have noticed about 200,000 people showed up to hear Obama speak in Berlin…do you think they are just quietly going to sit in the bars and mumble when the news hits?
Local citizens in Indonesia will on the whole be happy, but y’know, they have their OWN upcoming election to worry about. I’m sure I will see smiles on many faces, but that’s about it.
My American expat friends and I, however, will be in an absolute frenzy of euphoria. We will dance in the streets plenty. (NB: I do not speak for the entire American expat community here - moments before writing this note, I left an American Chamber of Commerce meeting, and I’m betting McCain would do very well among that group.)
If Obama wins, I can’t wait to see his reception in Kenya on his first visit as President.
I doubt it. The majority of Europeans will be happy but I don’t see many going onto the streets.
I’ll be delighted and watching live for as long as it takes, I’ve taken a holiday the next day. There will be a very large Jameson drank while Barack gives his acceptence speech. I’m not going to miss that historic moment.
Since most Americans over here seem to be Dems I expect to meet a lot of happy people. My boss is going to a party hosted by Dell. I’d say that will be a very big night as there’ll be lots of Yanks there.
A visit would be totally different. You would not believe what it was like here when Bill came in 1995. The whole country was abuzz.
I would imagine Obama would get something similar.
Cameroon will be quite happy. People there generally like America and think that Obama will bridge many divides in American and around the world. A not insignificant number of people also beleive Obama will make it easier for them get visas.
China seems fairly indifferent, though most people I know express mild support for Obama.
Celebrations in the streets only happen in Canada if we win a hockey championship.
But most Canadians will be profoundly relieved and happy. I’ve never seen Canadians so wrapped up in a U.S. election and so overwhelmingly hoping for one particular candidate winning.
Or more, because O’Bama, like Reagan, would be returning to the Auld Sod! 
(Aren’t the O’Bama’s related to the County Kerry O’Flanagans?)
Nah, more like a gigantic, collective sigh of relief around the globe.
Cat III or IV hurricanes may ensue so brace yourselves.
Would be a very good thing,* realpolitik* wise. Sign says “Under New Management”. Get us some of that “benefit of a doubt” action.
Pretty much what I thought when I read the title, except the hurricane part.
If you mean Dell Computers then I wonder how happy the party will be if Obama wins. I believe Michael Dell (founder of Dell Computers) is a unabashed and politically active conservative Republican. Though I don’t really know how much his politics would affect a party in Ireland (if that is where the party is).
HELLS YES! 
(and I will be doing my own little happy dance and likely whooping off the balcony as the results come in…may even get out in the streets and happy dance with my neighbors, should they be so inclined, I’m not proud)
I have many friends around the world who have been just aghast at the last 8 years and, a bit unfairly, I feel, have looked to me to single-handedly remedy the situation. I tried, ok.
I’m tired of having to apologize for my government. :o
Yes, they will be celebrating along with us. There will be parties in the streets, yes, here and elsewhere. It will signal the end of a long, dark era to many. An era where the US treated its longtime allies like trash because they dared to differ with us, when we made ourselves a laughing-stock by declaring french-fries “freedom-fries”, when we started a war based on lies, when we set ourselves back a decade or so in joining the rest of the civilized democracies wrt wages and health care and tax policy and environmental protections.
I mean, THINK of it, damn near everyone in the world loved and supported us after 911, the largest outpouring of support ever, but Bush managed to turn that goodwill to vinegar in no time. :mad:
This is the other side of the “will there be rioting in the streets if Obama loses” thread, lol…I like this one better
And I think it says something about the level of cynicism we have developed as a people that the fact that Obama stirs people to passion and draws huge crowds and gets us excited about the future and what we could do with it is seen by so many as some sort of sickness, a sign of a “messiah complex”. No, it’s just HOPE, and the natural human reaction to it, something that’s been missing for a long while now.
It will be exactly like the ending to Return of the Jedi, complete with Obama seeing the ghosts of Wright, Ayers, and Rezko looking on approvingly at the inauguration party.
Also little dancing bears.